@Psycogeek Type K Skylake processors do not ship with a thermal solution—most enthusiasts will buy their own third-party cooler, so it's not unusual that Intel considers it redundant. Type E (HEDT) processors have never shipped with any thermal solution. Other Skylake-S parts do ship with a cooler.

arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/…

Be careful out there. Might be worth pinning.

Note that all plugins on my end are ask-to-activate, and that activating Flash Player is not something I take lightly.

@bwDraco we'll start with a regular star, and if it gets some more, I'll pin it

Three domains blacklisted on Adblock Plus. Malware domains filter is also active. (As noted earlier, I don't block most advertising.)

I'm also going to take a full system backup.

@bwDraco I'm worried about my dad :/ he uses IE exclusively (on Windows 10, with automatic updates enabled, thank god) and does a lot of surfing on sites with flash, etc., and without an ad blocker

I think he also has malwarebytes but can't be 100% sure on that

I don't want to block advertising, but the way advertisers are going these days I don't feel they're giving us much of a choice.

The exceptions are far and few; I've removed ads on my blog

@Mokubai it's not only the advertisers, it's the vulnerabilities in their ad "networks" that enable bad actors to exploit them to inject attack payloads, and the poor vetting process for seemingly legitimate advertisers

@allquixotic I get that, but it's up to the advertising networks to fix their glaring problems and oversights. If they don't then it's only going to get worse for them.

going on the internet without an ad blocker is like not wearing protection when having biological relations with a stranger

(I had to write that very creatively to not trigger any "WHOA" keywords in my work's key l*gger)

Running Firefox, Norton Security on the system.

@bwDraco So, you're not using protection...

I don't allow plugins for the most part.

Disabling flash is a good start, that monstrosity should have died in a fire years ago. Like WebKit.

I'm just waiting for Firefox to convert over to WebKit, then the only choice will be to stop using the internet.

@Mokubai wat, why WebKit?

I didn't know advertising was a security issue. I have an ad blocker because I don't want to look at ads.

||shangjiamedia.com^
||evangmedia.com^
||talk915.pw^
||trackmytraffic.biz^
||brentsmedia.com^

Block all these for security. This may not cover all possibilities, but it'll dramatically reduce your risk.

Some sites are not happy about it, though.

@bwDraco Block how?

Add the above patterns to a custom filter in Adblock Plus.

@allquixotic I despise all of the android flavours of it because all of the "alternative" browsers are nothing more than a reskinned Safari/Chrome with the same retarded misfeatures. Sadly the performance of FF on android is lacklustre at best.

That bleeds over to the desktop...

@bwDraco Ok. Does Adblock not block them by default then?

Not presently.

@bwDraco Ok.

@Mokubai ah - Android issues - well on iOS I'm forced to only use WebKit, but at least I've got adblocking there now, with iOS 9.

I'd try Opera if that wasn't just yet another WebKit browser.... Or even Edge if it wasn't MS WebKit... I remember a time when we had some choice about our browsers.

Norton Security does signature-based analysis of Web activity to detect malicious traffic patterns.

and I prefer Chrome on Windows for its startup performance, excellent extensions, fast UI, and overall superior render performance

@Mokubai Edge has absolutely nothing in common with WebKit; it has more in common with IE 11 than it does WebKit.

FF is snappy for me and I prefer it's style of not loading all the tabs at startup.

I'm pretty confident that the security measures I have in place should protect against most attacks, but there's always the possibility that there's a subtle security hole that allows an attacker through.

Chrome just loads everything and wastes precious time and network bandwidth.

@Mokubai huh?

I also did run a full system scan yesterday.

when I start Chrome I get one about:blank tab

I usually have 10-20 tabs open and remember them between sessions.

@Mokubai YDIW, IMHO

use bookmark bar folders! :P

Because I like to be able to carry on where I left off? I consider it optimising my workflow tbh.

also, Chrome did end up adding support for load-on-demand tabs

I'm running another scan right now while the machine is also performing a backup.

if I'm on youtube for example, and open a new video in a background tab (without clicking it), it won't start playing until I click it

(Hurray for SSD and fast CPU)

also, Mozilla has absolutely no justification for being a debbie downer on WebP when it's such a great image format; they just don't like Google and have a very strong NIH culture

@Mokubai The only Opera is Opera 12

Guacamole supports WebP encoding of VNC/RDP sessions, which reduced my bandwidth usage over JPEG by 25-50%

Mozilla is also pretty stupid lately and very good at intentionally pissing off users and being 100% fine with that

some debacle about taking away some tab bar something or other; Yahoo search by default; ads on the new tab page, etc

and even the best omnibar firefox plugins are buggy at best and broken at worst (focus issues, etc)

Pricing for Solar Systems in the US Dropped 17% in 2015

@tereško I'll take Proxima Centauri, thanks

my first thought was: can I buy Tau Centauri

yeah

@random That's going back a way, take it that was before The Great WebKitening....

I've got a question about printing on sheets of labels using a laserjet, and this seems as good a place to ask as any. So, is it reasonable to run the sheet of labels through even if I'm only printing on, say, 3 out of 12? Does the action of running the label sheet through a printer repeatedly damage the labels? (I can't think of any SE site where this would actually be on topic.)

@tereško rofl

forums.evga.com/…

Fermi was notorious for overheating.

@Bob did you remember to get the book?

@FaheemMitha From experience, yes, it does often damage the sheet and I generally only trust them to go through the printer 3/4 times. Hot rollers and lots of cut edges do not mix

The VRM ignited on the card mentioned in the forum link.

@Mokubai Thanks for the feedback. I did a quick search on the net, which suggested the adhesive from removed labels could also damage the printer.

But is running a label sheet with no labels removed from the sheet safe for the printer?

It is fine, a lot of label sheets are designed to go through laser printers

Oh shit - hothardware.com/news/…

I bet you could run Star Citizen in 2K or 4K resolution with 3D or VR using one of those cards

isn't it actually an "onboard crossfire" card?

@Mokubai Ok. Thank you.

as an AMD user/fan, I am not really all that excited about that card

@FaheemMitha As I say generally it's fine, but after a few feeds through the printer some of the labels tend to look a bit like they're peeling away a bit, and one thing you don't want is one of those stuck the the printer drum.

@Mokubai The recommended/safe way seems to be to print all the labels in a single pass.

Definitely preferred if you can do it, but I've often saved a sheet and used it once or twice more.

And I'll probably stick to that. Considering how troublesome printers even one does nothing to cause problems.

@Mokubai Ok. Just curious; do you favor any specific brand?

@FaheemMitha Avery is generally best.

I've only ever really used Avery labels, no real reason except they're what are usually around when I need some labels.

@bwDraco Ok. Thank you.

@bwDraco Jinx!

@Mokubai Ok. Thanks. I'm not sure they're available here, though.

And if they were, they would probably be very expensive. Looking...

Yes, there are some Avery labels available on amazon.in, but they're (relatively) expensive. Probably imports.

For example, this is available, but it's like $18, while in the USA it's $7.00.

Imports are expensive, but 150% more is worse than average.

> Disks are the physical manifestation of storage. Disks are evil. They lie about their characteristics and layout, they hide errors, and they fail in unexpected ways. ZFS means no longer having to fear that your disks are secretly plotting against you. Yes, your disks are plotting against you, but ZFS exposes their treachery and puts a stop to it.

@tereško Yea, grabbed it. Thanks.

@allquixotic Hm... don't you have lz4 enabled already? I'm not sure further compression is of much value.

@bwDraco You already said that yesterday. Again.

Sorry. This is so damn hard to avoid...

@allquixotic There was a power outage specific to a few racks. My server was on one of those.

Caused a reboot after a couple hundred days of uptime. And also a failure to boot :P

FYI: This is usually an indication that I might be starting to lose control of myself, as it reflects an impulse control failure.

Though that was cause some update knocked out the ZFS module.

urk.

@JourneymanGeek I'm starting to think MS is just screwing with me now.

Phone and chat support said no. Email and twitter said yes.

?!

@FaheemMitha Depending on how often you need to do this (how many labels at a time, how many times a year, etc.) it might make sense to get one of those label printers with a roll of labels.

@Bob 2 + 2 = 0

I'm starting to implement more aggressive checks for stability and self-control to reduce the risk of things like this happening, but there isn't much of a guarantee just yet. I stand by my word regardless and every effort will be put into ensuring that this doesn't impact my activities here.

@Bob Hmm. Can I print PDFs on them?

@FaheemMitha Nope. They print a single label at a time.

Oh, they can print really quickly. But it's a single stream of labels.

And usually you use the provided label designer to make them.

Never worked with a label printer, but I suppose not.

You probably could send a PDF through but that's probably the wrong size...

What are you trying to label?

@Bob Bummer.

@bwDraco Just envelopes. Nothing exciting.

A label printer should do the trick.

@bwDraco I guess. I was going to use my laser printer with some LaTeX label package.

Hmm. Not too familiar with that scenario.

I thought you would just put a few lines of text in the label area and print them out.

@Bob You're right - but I only want to dump the allocated blocks to a file, not the whole FS. Get what I'm saying?

@bwDraco That's roughly what those LaTeX packages do, I think. Mostly oriented towards label sheets, I think.

@tereško yeah, but it doesn't have to do crossfire because it's all on the same board

a multithreaded renderer will automatically use all the GPU cores on both GPUs

because both GPUs are synced to the same framebuffer

@allquixotic Watch the power requirements. It needs three 8-pin PCIe aux power connectors.

are you 100% sure?

instead of needing explicit Crossfire support from each game

@tereško yes - a single threaded renderer will only use one GPU AFAIK, but a multi-threaded renderer with no crossfire/SLI support will still utilize 100% of the card

It's specified for 350 watts but AMD has decided to play it safe this time.

@bwDraco no problem, my 1200W gold-certified PSU can handle it :)

I'm interested to see the TFLOPS output of the GTX 1080 before I buy into that, though. well, Polaris and Pascal

the war of the "P"s! FIGHT

that Radeon Pro will still be damn 28nm, probably -_-

the most expensive and high TFLOPS 28nm ever built, but still 28nm

@allquixotic Huh, I thought zfs send only did allocated blocks?

zfs send | dd of=blah.img

or zfs send > blah.img

@Bob you can just zfs send > blah.img?!?!?!?! I thought you had to pipe it to a zfs receive on the other end O_________O

WHY DON'T I KNOW THESE THINGS

ok, problem solved then O_O

@allquixotic It's just a stream lol

Lots of guides have you sending it through gzip/ssh/whatever

yeah, but it was always to a zfs receive over ssh that I saw -_-

thought it was some custom protocol

docs.oracle.com/cd/E18752_01/html/819-5461/gbchx.html

# zfs send pool/fs@snap | gzip > backupfile.gz

Straight from the Oracle docs.

woooooo

duke nukem 3d!!

controls are terrible

@Bob Thanks. Yeah, I won't compress it further; lzo probably does a good enough job.

Can I then mount that image over smb with a loopback mount?

I guess I'll have to call my "new" zpool something other than tank

to avoid a name conflict

bank? :D

lol

@allquixotic Dunno if mounting would work since it's not really a raw image

I've never really tried.

@allquixotic morewords.com/ends-with-by-length/ank

You were root on zfs, right?

Install os on new dataset, configure bootloader

@Bob ah, right, I don't even have to make a copy of my data :D

I can debootstrap Ubuntu into a new dataset

A backup is probably a good idea though :P

...yeah

If the new zfs modules break anything

I'm already running very recent ZOL

I still need to set up proper backups on mine

Slowly working my way through a massive todo list :/

unrelatedly, there is a huge amount of code upheaval, bug fixes, etc landing in lxd lately

GEE I WONDER WHY (the Ubuntu code freeze is days away AFAIK)

they want lxd 2.0 for Ubuntu 16.04

Still waiting for deb :P

meh

Ubuntu >>> Debian imo

I wonder if I could install a VM over 9p

wow - packages.ubuntu.com/xenial/lxd - already 2.0 rc3 in there... will wait for final release then maybe grab xenial debootstrap a bit early

this game has NOT aged well

hideous screen tearing

you know they don't have a screenshot tag on arqade

vuln seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q1/645 // git 2.7.1, remote code execution

Please don't post NSFW content here.

> I assure you that making about:blank not linkable will Break The Web (TM).

lol

@tereško Welp.

I wonder if that applies to gfw

@bwDraco was that really for me?

It was directed at Burgi.

@allquixotic No, although it'd probably only take a few dozen liens of code to make it possible

oh he's back :P

@bwDraco sorry didn't realise that would be considered NSFW

i was trying to make a statement about how what is acceptable in gaming has changed in the last 20 years hadn't considered beyond that

ah well

I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.